About this title: Brilliantly portrayed by a novelist with "a talent for hyperbole and downright yarning unequaled since Mark Twin", (SATURDAY REVIEW), this slave's-eye view of the Civil War exposes America's racial foibles of the past and present with uninhibited humor and panache. "A book that reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with comic rage".--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very good. **SIGNED by Ismael Reed to previous owner. Avon Bard PB 1st edition / 2nd printing. Square uncreased spine. Previous owner's name and 2 pages have highlighting. [B51] read more
Description: Good. Purchasing this book supports the King County Library System Foundation. Thriftbooks and KCLSF have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very Good. 0689707339 Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light discoloration due to aging and other light wear. read more
Description: Very good. By Reed, Ishmael; ISBN: 0394487540; Pub. : Random House; Pub. Date: 1976; Media: Hard cover; Very good in fair dust jacket. Lots of wear on dust jacket, the worst being a 1/2-inch tear. The book itself is excellent.; Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 179 p. Audience: General/trade. by Reed, Ishmael; ISBN: 0394487540; Pub. : Random House; Pub. Date: 1976; Media: Hard cover; Very good in fair dust jacket. Lots of wear on dust jacket, the worst being a 1/2-inch tear. The book itself is ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Atheneum
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780689707339ISBN:0689707339
Description: Very Good. Three slaves run away from 19th century Virginia, one of which heads for Canada with the slave owner in pursuit. As new condition except for name written on flyleaf. read more
Description: Good in Good dust jacket; 1976. 0394487540. May be book club edition-good condition-mild wear, mild edge discoloration-cover edges are curved outward-DJ in new, clear mylar cover; hardcover; Random House; New York; Second Printing; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 179 pages; , read more
Edition: No Edition Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780394487540ISBN:0394487540
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Minor shelf and edge wear to book and jacket, most noticeable near spine. Overall, a solid copy with clean pages. read more
"This is amazing. It's not at all what I expected - I walked into this book without any idea of the plot - but it's hilarious, and makes its point beautifully and sharply."
"Reed is not for everyone but he is for me. In this kaleidoscopic history of America, we see a hundred years collapsed on itself and acted out by caricatures. Reed shreds to pieces what we think we know about slavery, the civil war, abolitionism, and freedom and no side goes unscathed. His writing leaps off the page. Talking about Reed, someone recently said to me, "He is fun to read but he has 'attitude.'" If you idolize Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book might offend you and maybe that's a good thing."
"In an attempt to break down the "black aesthetic," Ishmael Reed presents a wildly entertaining, uproariously funny, and impossibly anachronistic hybrid tale in Flight to Canada. Featuring the slave-poet who escapes on a jet plane named Raven Quickskill, a bumbling Abraham Lincoln, the sado-masochist Master Swille, the pornographic model Stray Leechfield, and the conspiracy-theory-lover 40s, the ensemble cast provides a great deal of humor. Underlying the humor, however, is a biting satire of America's past of racial inequity, and critique of moving forward. If one hasn't read William Wells Brown's Clotel, or the President's Daughter before reading this novel, I'd highly suggest it. Within the context of Clotel, I feel Flight to Canada makes a little more sense (Brown even cameos as an actual character). Reed's work does pay homage and poke fun at Brown. I found myself laughing hysterically at certain points, only to fall back in to deeper reflection over the inequality America condoned for so long, and in certain ways, still does."
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